The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-09-02
PARAGRAPHS OF INTEREST.

A Boston barber has retired after sixty
years of service.
They use an old hearse in Jackson te
peddle peaches from.
An Ohio tame crow has lived to pass
his thirty-second birthday.
Half the people rated as millionaires
nowadays could not draw $4,000
check.
It will be fashionably Notifying to
admit not having been to Europe in the
summer of 1887.
Birch bark stationery is quite extern
sively used this season, and every one
processes enthusiasm over ii.
Tho skeleton of q man was recently
found in n thicket on the battle field OF
Antetam, and by its side the scabbard
and blade of an officers sword.
Asbury Park boasts of a pet dog who
appears on the board walk with a dia-
mond collar. He is Maltese pug and
belongs to the wife of New York
broker.
Americas, Ga, has obtained the cheap
est railroad in the world. She has Sc
cured about twenty EIGHT miles Of rail-
road, with full and complete control over
it, for $4,000.
William McDiarmid is probably the
oldest printer IN the United States. He
was born in Edinburgh 1909, and helped
to ''set up Walter SCOTS novels from
the original manuscript.
Jasper Caller, near Fabyan's, has one
of the rarest animals ever seen in the
White mountains. 1t is white porcu-
pine, big one, too, weighing twenty five
pounds, and already so tame that it eats
from its owners hand.
The largest bunch of bananas on record
was shipped to Mount Vernon, N. Y. one
day last week. 1t measured four feet in
length and weighed 400 pounds. Some
of the bananas measured sixteen inches
in length.
The school officials of Boston have
posted notices in all the school buildings
of that city forbidding the chewing of
tobacco by the pupils. They have even
posted the notice in the girls high school
building, much to the indignation of the
young women.
1t is reported from Paris that a group
of hero worshipers purpose to buy the
decorated locomotive which drew Bou-
LANCER out of Paris and preserve it as a
relic of the general, or give it, still
adorned with its inscriptions, to the late
minister of war, as substitute for his
black horse.
Once in a while justice hobs up with
the rag off her eyes. The will of an old
man, Jacob Wiener, is found
to have cut off certain daughter with a
given her an elegant house on condition
that he was to have home with her.
She got the deed and promptly fired the
father. He has taken a grim sort of re-
vengc which everybody will approve.
A Washington man tells of quarrel
between two negro boys. The larger
boy with great volubility was applying
every sort of abusive epithet The
younger boy leaning against a fence and
steadily regarding the speaker with
;ullen scowl, waited for halt. At last
t came. "Is you done?'' Eyes, is
lone" Then slowly and Goolly the
said "All dem dings you say
is, you is DEM"
Capt. Thompson, Of the British steamer
Iuley Hassan, has remarkably saga
ious retriever dog The steamer was
,assing through the Straits of Gibraltar,
When the dog showed signs of restless
less and finally jumped overheard. A
'oat was lowered and the dog vas dis
overed holding the collar of the coat of
drowning man, who was lying across
wo oars. The man was afterward dis
overed to be the only survivor Of
spanish revenue felucca, which had been
lpset four hours previously.